go to comcastbusiness.com/ checkyourspeed if we can't offer faster speeds - or save you money - we'll give you $150. comcast business. built for business. thank you for joining us of cnn special coverage. i'm natalie allen. >> sounding british. i'm errol barnett. a big welcome to those watching in the states and around the world. top story, u.s. president barack obama green lights reconnaissance flights over syria as threats from isis grow and now syria says it's willing to cooperate with the west to stop the militants but with conditions. plus, coming up, a touching service and a call to action at michael brown's funeral. we'll go live to ferguson to see how the community is reacting and get details on what could be new evidence, an audiotaping in the case. cnn is on the ground in liberia right now where an

entire community is quarantined because of the ebola outbreak. a closer look at how desperate that situation is becoming and what's being done to stop the virus coming up. we begin this hour with major new developments in the battle against isis militant. >> yes, a u.s. official telling cnn president obama has authorized reconnaissance flights oversyria and they could begin at any moment. >> this follows a stunning announcement from syria's assad regime. it's now open to international help even from the u.s. to defeat the growing isis threat. >> but that comes with an important condition, all military action must be approved by the u.n. security council. listen. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: the coming few days will upthe seriousness of regional and international countries in fighting terrorism and executing the security council's resolution. until now, we do not see the

serio seriousness. >> the u.s. already joined the fight against isis with targeted air strikes in northern iraq. >> the sunni militants' tightening grip in neighboring syria has washington considering all of its options. jim acosta reports. >> reporter: still spreading terror, isis fighters can boast of another conquest, this time an air base in northern syria. but the white house now appears to be downplaying expectations for military action in syria right away. >> chairman dempsey talked about it and he indicated there's no evidence of an active plot right now. that said, we are well aware of the threat that is posed by isil. >> reporter: josh earnest was pointing to a comment made a dempsey who said isis and syria do not pose a threat against the u.s. homeland. i can tell you with great clarity about that threat existed up side syria it would be my strong recommendation we

would deal wit. that's different than what dempsey and other administration officials said last week after the beheading of american journalist james foley. >> this is beyond anything that we have seen so we must prepare for everything. >> can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in syria, the answer is no. >> reporter: earnest acknowledged semantics matter. >> that seems to be a different question than does isis pose a national security threat to the united states. >> that's correct. >> and the answer is what. >> the answer is we are concerned about the threat posed by isil. >> reporter: one of the president's chief foreign policy analysts said the white house is trying to minimize that in order to justify not changing a failed strategy but top white house aides are making one thing clear, the president won't seek permission from bashar al assad before air strikes. tell that to the morn minister

who said this should be done through the syrian government as it is a symbol of national sovereignty. any violation of that from any party is aggression. but that would put the president in the position of becoming strange bedfellows with a regime he nearly went to war with a year ago. >> we would have preferred assad go two years ago, last year, six months ago, two months ago. >> reporter: last year the president called on congress to vote to authorize air strikes against assad's forces inside syria but this time around the white house is saying it won't be seeking that kind of permission for air strikes against isis targets inside syria. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. new developments in the past few hours in the michael brown case. a man who lives near the scene of the shooting says he may have inadvertently recorded audio of the gunshots that killed brown.

he says he has been interviewed by the fbi. >> now, all of this is just coming to light in the past few hours. we here at cnn cannot independently find out the authenticity but reaching out to the fbi to confirm the man's story. we want to play the audio for you. first, though, listen to the man's attorney explain where he was then you'll hear the audio that he has provided. >> he was in his apartment. he was talking to a friend on a video chat. he heard loud noises and at the moment at the time he didn't even realize the import of what he was hearing. until afterwards and it just happened to have captured 12 seconds of what transpiredout side his building. >> you are pretty. you are so fine, just going on some of your videos. how could i forget?

>> it's a very disturbing development. people noting that there was a pause in the shots in that recording. what does that suggest? obviously sounds like this man was having just a kind of mundane conversation perhaps with his partner, we're just getting the audio but this is now a new development as the grand jury in that investigation slowly makes its way through the legal process, meantime, you got religious leaders all hoping the death of michael brown will really serve as a wake-up call to the community and really get the country's attention on claims of police violence in the united states. >> thousands of people attended brown's funeral today. cnn's victor blackwell has more on what many call the teen's homegoing service. ♪ >> reporter: organizers called it a celebration of the life of michael brown. family members and complete

strangers jumped to their feet clapping and shouting. ♪ >> reporter: but not lesley mcspadden. at the start of the service she stood, staring at her son's casket and photos, more than two weeks after he was shot and killed on the street in ferguson, missouri. >> michael brown's blood is crying from the ground, crying for vengeance, crying for justice. >> reporter: justice brown's great uncle says for more than just his nephew. >> there's a cry being made from the ground, not just for michael brown, but for the trayvon martins, for those children at sandy hook elementary school, for the columbine massacre, for the black-on-black crime there is a cry being made from the ground! >> there was definitely a message of keep it peaceful. and it starts at home. excuse me. it starts at home and goes out

to the community and then into the world. you know, we have to start with ourselves and then go out, you know, and spread peace and be respectful. definitely and first and foremost, be respectful of others. >> reporter: ranita conway never met brown neither likely had the 450 attendees. some wearing a t-shirt or mourning over someone they lost. >> i know a grieving over lost grandchildren that will never be born. >> reporter: celebrityies and notables like spike lee and jesse jackson sat in a seemingly reserved vip section next to politicians from the state's capitol and the nation's capitol and there was plenty of politics. >> what you guys can do to continue this is show up at the voting polls, let your voices be heard and let everyone know that we have had enough of all of this. >> reporter: but after weeks of protests with moments of violence, fogs of tear gas, and standoffs with police, a plea.

>> today is for peace, peace and quiet. we will lay our son, brother, cousin, uncle, our family, young man, young black man, young human being. but we don't say good-bye. we say good journey until we meet again. >> reporter: victor blackwell, cnn, st. louis, missouri. >> and as you heard in that funeral, the family had appealed for calm on the streets of ferguson today. michael brown's father had appealed for calm yesterday on the streets. let's go to cnn's nick valencia now. he is live in ferguson tonight. and, did people stand down today to show respect to the family and to get all the attention to the funeral today, nick?

>> reporter: yeah, natalie, today was all about michael brown jr. people really did pay attention to those elders speaking at the funeral and the plea that michael brownson made at a peace fest for his son asking people to reserve today for grieving, for a celebration of life and really to stay off the streets so we don't see that -- those images of protesting and unrest and looting in these areas. this image behind me here is one of solidarity for mike brown. have you about a dozen people still in this approved assembly area largely different from what we saw in the last week. this was a lot that was at one time filled with hundreds of demonstrators and hundreds of supporters. there is a large contingent of support for officer darren wilson, just not on this side of town but in st. louis 30 minutes outside ferguson and know that they have raised more than $400,000 for his defense and

livelihood and fear he won't ever be a police officer here again or won't be able to live in this area but as i mentioned, it is clear that what i've been told this is about michael brown. they don't want the story to be lost but say the cameras even if they do leave that they will continue to demonstrate and while today may be peaceful natalie, they say tomorrow those demonstrations will start back up again and this group behind me, this group of about a dozen people that you see behind that tent say that they're going to be the ones leading the charge. natalie. >> it'll be interesting to see how long these street protests continue as we wait to hear what happens next on the legal side of this story. nick live in ferguson, thank you. still to come here on cnn, inside liberia's ground zero for ebola. we'll show you what life is like for all these people who are

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as governments in west africa work to stop the spread of the deadly ebola virus, liberia's president is making sure to remember the human aspect of this crisis. >> yes, the president visited west point slum on monday, one of the quarantined areas in the

country's capital, monrovia. >> and spoke with residents, tried to ease their concerns as truck loads of food aid were brought in to help residents in west point on monday. as we mention this, is an area, a poor area that's in a way become ground zero in liberia's battle against ebola. >> the quarantine is making everyday life there extremely difficult. our theme that elbagir went to check the situation. >> reporter: on the drive in you're met with barbed wire. crossing through the line, you are immediately swarmed. crossing through the line, you are immediately swarmed. people desperate to be helped. desperate to believe this isn't happening. a rough estimate there, over 70,000 people living in

monrovia's west point slum, no sanitation, no running water and since the government designated it an ebola quarantine zone last week, no way out. this was after rioters looted an ebola center claiming the virus was a government hoax. were you here when the clinic was -- a nurse told us she arrived for her shift that night to find the center destroyed and not a patient to be found. you can see this center, it's not extraordinarily well equipped. they're having to rewash their protective gear, a squirt of diluted bleach and a door that was ransacked and left for broken during the riots. this is it. this is the only place people have. and even here, the most that they can hope to get is to be made comfortable while they wait to either overcome the virus or not. charming is a hairdresser. like many here in west point, she has to travel out of the township to make a living. the only breadwinner for her two children.

[ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: right now my mother doesn't have anything. i was the one that provided for her. but as time goes by, now she's complaining the rice is finished. >> reporter: are you more scared of ebola or are you more scared of the hunger? [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: that's what's worrying us is the hunger, the ebola, everything. i'm scared of everything. >> reporter: charming leaves us, she's going to see if her mother is right, if the food really has run out. as we walk back out on to the street, the crowd has grown larger. at the quarantine line, the standoff continues. desperate to at least be seen and heard, if not released. nima elbagir, cnn, monrovia, liberia. >> this is proving to be such a huge problem for so many people. the united nations' new point man on ebola says the fight to

stamp out the virus is really a war that could take now another six months. part of the problem, they say, is something called contact tracing. for the next half hour we will explain why health officials are having so much trouble keeping track of people who have been in contact with ebola patients. the earthquake that hit california sunday didn't kill anyone, but many people lost possessions they had spent a lifetime collecting. ahead here we'll show you the scale of the damage.

almost two full days after a earthquake rattle d north carolina we don't know the extent of the damage. >> they're still assessing the damage to homes and businesses there and so far declared 270 structures unsafe for occupation. take a look at that building there. some corners falling away. more than 200 people were injured in the quake. thankfully, though, no one was killed. >> still the quake was costly. a u.s. government estimate says the loss will probably top $1 billion and then there are the losses you can't put a price tag on. cnn's gary tuchman is there. >> reporter: bill has lived in the same house for many years. but this is all that's left. he and his wife teresa's mobile home in napa destroyed after the northern california earthquake. and he's looking for his kitten. >> cocoa. cocoa, girl.

cocoa, cocoa, where are you at? mommy and i miss you, honey. >> reporter: bill who requested we only use his first name was in the house with his wife when the earth started rumbling and then a fire erupted. it's believed a gas line ruptured. three homes in this lot including bill and teresa's are total losses. the fire started almost immediately after the earthquake began. nobody had any time to take out any personal belongings. they lost everything and it's all unrecognizable. but everyone who lived in these houses escaped with their lives. >> you look at stuff on tv, right, about how people lose stuff, they lose their home. there's a hurricane, there's an earthquake, there's a fire or a lot of things. you look at that and go on tv,

you look at it on tv and you go, what a bummer for them, but you don't get it. nobody gets it until it happens. now it's happened to me. >> reporter: this community with 225 residents is very tight knit with many retirees. there is destruction everywhere. homes are off foundations. there's no water or gas and people are filling up buckets in the swimming pool for now. you're about to turn 93 years old. >> yeah. >> reporter: and you look younger, which is great. >> thank you. >> reporter: but in your 93 years, have you ever ever experienced anything as scary as this? >> not really, no. i was even almost in a car wreck but that didn't even scare me. >> reporter: but this did. >> this did. >> reporter: how long have you lived here? >> six years. >> reporter: bill linder lives across the street from where the fire broke out. >> there was a loud explosion. at least it sounded like an explosion and a big, hard shake. that's why it didn't feel like an earthquake. it felt like a plane crash. and that -- i came out and saw the flames and thought a plane has hit the park. >> reporter: when the fire

started in their home, bill and his wife ran out quickly. bill went back in to try to rescue cocoa, but he had to leave when it got too dangerous. >> she follows us around all the time. she's like the cutest kitten in the world. i guess everybody's kitten is the cutest one, but she's white with black markings and she got black around here and a little black nose. >> reporter: bill will continue looking in and around this community that was jolted awake in the dead of night. gary tuchman, cnn, napa, california. >> those are the people who really got nailed by this earthquake. >> yeah, because you think napa valley. wineries and well to do but there are folks who lost a lot. >> his cat may wander back. they do that at times. i hope he does wander back. never been in an earthquake. you? >> i felt some small ones in los angeles. it's similar to like a truck going by. ivan cabrera has seen and felt

it all. >> indeed, i believe like natalie, cocoa is out there and will be for that nice reunion there. sometimes pets get scared and run away and come right back. let's check in on conditions in south korea. we're going to start here with, in fact, i want to take you to some just incredible pictures coming out of south korea. let's show you -- take a look at that bus on the right side. that green bus there. no traction, that is essentially now become a boat and it is floating. there are people inside it and what ensued thereafter, besides the panic was an incredible rescue operation able to get people out and there you see bystanders out of instinct. some of us run away. some go to the danger and some of those people there pulling people out of the bus even though we had a current situation there. it wasn't just a flood -- a bus that went into a bank here.

it was a running stream because of ten inches of rainfall. 250 millimeters of water is what fell there in south korea. watch me behind me, 9 ato the north. we can handle that. when you get 250 millimeters of rainfall in a short amount of time that will cause problems and it was this feature right here, you know, sometimes you get thunderstorms and then you get several thunderstorms that combine and we call that a mess so scale convective system here and so what happens is that can really tap into the atmosphere and bring down incredible amounts of rain which is exactly what happened there in south korea. unfortunately, that is a result of the my yew bayou front that they're familiar with. there you see the aftermath of what occurred there. the first responders deserving certainly an emmy for that. all right, let's check in on the rest of conditions. here we continue with rainfall. unfortunately japan will get in

on that as well and include places like shanghai, but to the south of beijing. look at manila getting pounded. torrential downpours here and it is bringing hefty amounts of rainfall from 100 to 200 millimeters. we're not done with the rain gauge. it's still collecting rain because it's still pouring over the same area. look at the scenes across the philippines. people just trying to grab on to something there to get themselves away from a dangerous situation although sometimes making things worse for the rest of them there. in india as well raining here heavily. here it's because of the monsoon that has continued although the totals have not been all that bad, 40 to 6 emil meters. they're used to it in this part of the world. got to get to school so makeshift bridges and onward.

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tells cnn president barack obama has authorized reconnaissance flights over syria and they could begin at any time. thousands of mourners attended michael brown's funeral monday in missouri. this clip shows one of the more celebratory moments from the so-called homegoing service. the unarmed african-american teen was killed by a police officer. activists called for social change. the old government was recalled at the recess of francois hollanp ande. now to this, for the first time hearing from the mother of

peter theo curtis. that's the american journalist released sunday after nearly two years in captivity in syria. >> yes, he's believed to have been held from the al nusra front, the same one that held james foley before he was killed by isis militants. american officials say the u.s. was not involved in curtis' release but it was aware of private efforts to free him. curtis' mother told abc news she talked to him on the phone is looking forward to seeing him in person. >> the first thing i did before i even told my daughter was i sat down, i sent an e-mail to diane foley. we've been through so much together and i didn't want her to hear it from the media first. >> do you know what you'll say to him. >> i'll probably give him a big hug. >> his mother's embrace after

all he's been through. two u.s. officials say investigators are not closer to who killed james foley. >> that is despite british reports to the contrary. officials say foley's killer cannot be determined from the isis video because it doesn't show the actual murder. but as we have the story, new leads are emerging. >> reporter: as investigators carefully examine the video looking for who committed this atrocity there are some disturbing clues and on closer examination on the gruesome execution some fresh puzzles. first, there is a clear edit which fades to black between the english accented talker and the man who appears to carry out the beheading and the man on the left who has the english accent appears of a different stature to the man on the right who apparently carries out the killing. there is another problem with continuity. the knife wielded by the english speaker is different from the

knife left by the body of the deceased. >> there's definitely a change of actor. the change is the physique of the individual standing next to the deceased. there are noticeable -- there are subtle but also noticeable changes in their build, their physical appearance. the dimensions of the knife, the style of the knife that is used. >> reporter: when trying to determine whether the british accented man is also the executioner it helps to examine where his pistol is holstered that is for use by his right hand but the executioner from the video appears left-handed. it's unclear why this happened. >> the person who was aessentially the mouthpiece may not have been willing to carry through with the deed or may not have been able to. >> reporter: this could present a problem for investigators as the speaker's voice and few doubt the voice heard is that of the man on the video was one of their biggest clues. >> the speaker is using a variety of english known as multicurl london english, a

melting pot accent that's emerged in recent years particularly in deprived mul multiethnic areas of inner london. >> reporter: it contains a wealth of other data like the measurements of a face, even beneath the cloth that could help investigators sift through databases of passport photos but it is possible that the man whose voice and britishness chilled many westerners was not the one to carry out the killing. nick paton walsh, cnn, london. israel's military has leveled another big building in gaza. the structure known as the italian tower was one of the tallest in gaza. palestinian health officials say 20 people were wounded as it came down. residents who live there evacuated the building earlier after a warning strike from an israeli drone. officials say other israeli strikes in gaza have killed 11 people since monday. militants have fired more than 100 rockets toward israel since

monday. this is the aftermath of a rocket attack this morning in ashkelon. several minor injuries reported. the latest out of ukraine. president petro poroshenko dissolved parliament there on monday and called for snap electionness october. >> he says a majority of the outgoing parliament suppoed ousts pretty viktor yanukovych who was aligned with russia. he also accused them of supporting rebels or terrorists. also this, mr. poroshenko is expected to meet russian president vladimir putin later today in belarus. they will be at a trade summit in minsk, the first face-to-face talk jins junior. moscow is ready to promote peace but expectation foss are a break are low after russian armored

vehicles now crossing the border into eastern ukraine. >> yes, yet again. moscow denies it but says it's ready to second a second aid convoy to ukraine. ongoing battles have taken a big toll on people there as diana magnay found out life for them is a daily struggle. >> reporter: this conflict leaves deep gashes in village after village in ukraine's east. the fabric of the day-to-day trashed as war sweeps through. the ukrainians recaptured this town last month. this house was shelled by the national guard locals say as they try to push the rebels out. >> translator: our task is to defend this territory and keep law and order because there is looting and because some of the local police joined the separatists. >> reporter: history repeating itself for those old enough to remember. >> translator: i lived during world war ii. i was small, but i remember, this woman tells me.

why did my children and grandchildren need this war today? i have a great great granddaughter and a great great grandson. he is 2 years old. why do they have to live through this shelling? this 8-year-old wanted desperately to be on camera? when you grow up would you like to be a soldier too? >> translator: no. >> reporter: why not? >> translator: because i really like peace. >> reporter: the family fled their town two days ago. intense shelling meant they had to stay 24/7 in an underground bomb shelter with more than a hundred others. "i don't think about russia," the mother says. "i don't think about who is involved. i think about one thing, how to survive and how my child will survive." so now the fire brigade in a nearby town is providing them shelter. they don't know where they'll go after this. we talked to the international red cross about how they're getting aid into besieged cities

like luhansk. >> we have ten trucks full of humanitarian goods but there's no possibility to bring it in for security reasons. >> reporter: no water or electricity there. with the city of donetsk, these are the last two rebel strongholds and ukraine is fighting a fierce bat toll win them back. as the fighting continues russia now says it wants to second a second humanitarian aid convoy into luha nchnsk as earl this week. they called the first a direct invasion but there is a difference between invading with tanks and with aid lorries. there is no doubt that humanitarian supplies are desperately needed by the people of lugansk. diana magnay, cnn. now to this 18-year-old michael brown has been laid to rest in the u.s. state of missouri.

the unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a police officer earlier this month. now his funeral was really a celebration of his life. but also a call to action for america to look at gun violence and policing. we're going to get to a commercial break with a look at michael brown's homegoing. ♪ >> we have had enough of the senseless killing. we have had enough of it and what you guys can do to continue this is show up at the voting polls. let your voices be heard and let everyone know that we have had enough of all of this and this change must come and any time changes come in this country it has come through the youth and the young generations. then we're going to hit the streets again and we're going to yell out for our freedom and our equal and we're going to yell

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contracted it while working in monrovia. so many people infected are those trying to help. now what's interesting, he had been receiving the experimental ebola drug zmapp so it apparently didn't work for him. the same drug, though, may have helped save two american patients, you may remember. in the democrat republic of congo the worst health organization is testing two patients to see if they have a different strain of the virus. u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon is urging countries thought to panic and to keep their borders open. health officials say one problem is tracing who may have been contacted by people who might have the virus. u.s. officials say information may be missing for 40 to 60% of such contact >> that's a scary number. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is about to show you for many who are infected with ebola they're reluctant to give researchers the names of their friends and loved ones.

take a look. >> reporter: ebola spreads from person to person so the only way to stop the disease is to keep meticulous track of everyone who has had contact with an infected person. one contact gets lost and the scourge may continue. >> if you leave behind even a single burning ember it's like a forest tire and flares back up. >> reporter: earlier cdc disease detective spent three months there getting list. >> we did have patients who were hesitant to provide contacts or would provide only one contact when you knew they had contact with more people than that. >> reporter: the big reason contacts are slipping through the cracks, fear. >> i think people are scared. when i first arrive there had there were rumors that if your name got put on the contact tracing list that it was a death list or an order with which people might die. and, of course, you don't want to say your child, you know, if you might believe that you don't

want to say your child is a contact. >> reporter: another way contacts go undetected by literally hide who is sick. in one village mirkocich remembers a woman who went absent for days. >> the husband said she went to wash her clothes earlier. from neighboring villagers we heard she was being hid in the house. there's nothing we can do. by hiding somebody in your home you're potentially infecting other people who in contact with her. she ended up dying in the house and did alert us after she passed away. >> reporter: there's another problem. the availability of work attorneys follow up with contacts. for example, in parts of sierra leone there are 2,000 contacts that need follow-up but the group doctors without borders says they've only been able to follow up with about 200 of them. then there's what the world health organization calls the numerous shadow zones, entire villages where ebola is suspected but disease detectives can't investigate because of community resistance or lack of

staff and vehicles. it's not really known how many people have been exposed to the virus. the cdc says they found communities where patients will tell them on average they have one or two contacts but they know that these householes have on. about five or six people. preliminary data shows 40% to 60% of people who may have had close contact with ebola patients have not been identified. can this epidemic be stopped? this incomplete contact list? >> i do not think it can. we need complete lists and we need complete follow-up of contacts. >> well, be sure to join one of our programs all this week that's just going to focus on the ebola crisis. that's cnn news center with anchor irish sla sesay and they'll have coverage of it in west africa at 19:30 in london

or 20:po in johannesburg. we will have experts answer your questions letch on our program. all right. tropical storm cristobal has been upgraded to a hurricane. >> our meteorologist ivan cabrera said it would become a hurricane. my goodness, you are an expert at this. >> there it is, it becomes a hurricane and, in fact this, is interesting because now we have three named storms and each one has been a hurricane and typically don't do that usually when you get to the at q storm at the beginning of the season you get a tropical storm. three hurricanes in a row and this one is impacting with this here and i think the main threat is heavy rainfall. it has been pouring over the same area, not the most impressive looking hurricane i must say, 120 kph is the minimal strength there at 75 miles an hour. and it will continue heading out to the north. now, interests along the united

states, we will have impacts but it's going to be side effects, talking about swells that will propagate from the hurricane and what that will mean is for the beaches, we are going to likely see some surf and significant at that and also the rip currents threat that you're familiar with so check with your beach patrol. they'll keep you vaef out there. strengthens before it hooks out. bermuda is close enough where they've issued tropical storm warnings and may get gusty winds and arain out of it. there it goes and there you see it is safely away from the united states but all the while pushing the waves in and all allowing for that rip current threat. otherwise, it's been hot, you may want to head to the beaches. look at these temperatures, talking about these heat indices. these are the actual temperatures into the upper 90s to around 100 where normally we would be in the upper 80s. st. louis has been really the

bull's-eye for the heat that has been incredible. we've had heat indices in the middle of the night and that's still the case so they've continued and extended the heat advisories and warnings right through the day today on tuesday. let's take you to some pictures, i want to show law happened off cape cod, massachusetts. oh, yes, you want to go to the beach but don't want this guy to hang out with you there. that's a shark. that's a great white. look at that. a great white spotted off massachusetts. they alerted beach patrol and, well, guess what. everybody got out of the water then they got creative and look behind me. they were scribbling on the sand here. you're going to need a bigger boat. remember that. >> the best line ever. >> yes, indeed. one of the best lines ever. the shark hopefully went about its way and everyone enjoyed the rest of the day at the beach in massachusetts. you have to enjoy because summer ends early. >> yes, it does.

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welcome back. the 66th annual prime time emmy awards celebrating the best had television were handed out a few hours ago. among the big winners, "breaking bad" won for outstanding drama

for the second year in a row and three of its actors including leading man bryan cranston came out on top of their respective categories. julianna margulies picked up best lead for "the good wife" and "modern family" won outstanding comedy series, the show's fifth straight win in that category. we have the senior editor of "in touch" weekly. it has been a huge night for "breaking bad." i called it this time yesterday when i spoke with you. >> he did. >> i did, natalie allen agrees, she heard me. this is a cult classic. hasn't been on the air for awhile but solidified its authority after tonight's wind, would you say. >> yeah, i think everyone thought this could either be "breaking bad" or it could be "true detective." >> right. >> "breaking bad," of course, the last episode, the final season aired like a year ago so people thought maybe it wasn't as fresh in people's minds but it was such a perfect end to a

series. this is the way you end a tv show the way they did with "breaking bad" and a lot think it was the best show ever on television and certainly the best way to end a tv show so i think we probably saw that coming because you saw all of the arcs winning and when they announced it was "breaking bad" not really a big surprise. >> what about the comedy character. idea modern family" winning over "orange is the new black" and netflix all these nonnetwork programs are becoming more popular and seems like the emmys shut down all of the nonnetwork nominated show. s what do you think. >> people thousand maybe there could be some surprises this time around because you do have netflix and it's kind of a new ear raf television. we saw a lot of the same shows winning, modern family ties "frasier."

"orange is the new black," yes, it's a comedy but it's darker but "modern family" is laugh out loud funny and a show everyone likes, accessible and relatable to a lot of people and i think that's why the show kinds winning and winning and winning and i think it was definitely a good choice to win. >> now, in the in memorial segment we did see a tribute to the late robin williams. how was that. >> i think they said in advance it was going to be heart felt but also fun because they wanted to, you know, pay respect to who robin williams was and having billy crystal do it, his good friend come out there, it was exactly that. he talked about personal stories about robin williams and him being at a baseball game together and robin playing a russian baseball player and then he talked about family acti activities they did together and just told some touching stories about robin williams, some personal stories and then they played some funny clips, robin williams on "the tonight show" and some of his comedy bits that

had heartfelt nature to them so i think it was the perfect way to pay tribute to him at a comedian to someone who made us laugh but showing we're all touched by his passing. >> yeah, and because this is live program you always get unscripted moments as i'm following social media. julia louis-dreyfus when she was heading up to accept her award she had had massive kiss with bryan cranston. what happen there had? >> that was probably one of the best moments of the show. >> well, julia louis-dreyfus and bryan cranston got up earlier to present -- co-present an award and they had played opposite each other on "seinfeld." bryan cranston reminded julia louis-dreyfus of that. we shared a kiss and dated. >> she joked around about how she didn't remember. then when she won he grabbed her on her way up there. it was like an 11-second kiss. very long. it seems like it was lasting longer than her actual speech but funny and talked about it after and said they both checked

with their spouses, it was okay. they planned it out in advance and said it would be funny if they did it presenting and if she won they would add on this second element of doing the kiss and she won last year so she figured probably she'd win again, i'm sure. >> and made the show much more interesting. i know there are parrotts in los angeles raging which is the big party to head to? i know you're heading out. >> yeah, i'll hit up things, hbo party is the big one. the place to see and be seen. >> very good. you heard it first. kim serafin, you enjoy yourself tonight. >> be nice. >> don't feel bad for those folks when didn't win. >> i don't. they're still stars. >> they have these goody bags worth something like $50,000. >> they get swag. you know what swags stands for. >> i know have you it. >> stuff we all get. >> that does it for this hour. rosemary church is stepping in with errol.

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a broader mission, the u.s. president authorizes surveillance flights over syria of isis militants. >> tears and calls for justice, thousands attends attend the fu the unarmed black teen killed by a white police officer in ferguson, missouri. barbed wire and barricades, a firsthand look at liberia's struggle to contain the ebola outbreak. and one last call, curtain call we should say for walter white and company, "breaking bad" has a big night at the emmys.